Jose Chardiet

JOSE CHARDIET Viajero

Published by Ken Saunders Gallery 230 West Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 www.kensaundersgallery.com

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition JOSE CHARDIET: VIAJERO November 2 - December 28, 2012

JOSE CHARDIET Viajero

For his latest exhibition at Ken Saunders Gallery, Jose Chardiet has brought together a body of work that is far reaching in form, concept and execution.

There are brilliantly colored petite vessel forms with surfaces rich in mysterious copper inclusions and fanciful cold worked embellishments.

There are meticulously crafted electroplated hot-glass Teapots/Skyscrapers that are marvels of architecture in the miniature and luxurious objets d’art.

Chardiet creates wondrous objects in a scale that many artists find intimidating, but in the larger works in this exhibition the artist exerts a master’s exuberance for ambitious plans and the touch to execute his complex designs.

Included in this exhibition are a number of the artist’s most resolved Still-Lifes to date. Fiercely Caribbean, these multi-part sculptures strum with a vibrant internal rhythm, sway in a sensual breeze. The sculptures in this series are a complex construction of cast, blown, and hot-tooled glass elements that have been ground, polished, electroplated, and/or painted.

Finally, there are two very special older works included in this exhibition. The artist’s Headdress series has very few examples. These large blown and hot-tooled sculptures marked a point in artist’s career when he challenged himself with scale by taking advantage of vocabulary he had developed with the Still-Lifes and the technique of constructing his sculptures from multiple parts. These works are exemplary representations of the artist at his boldest and most ambitious.

For nearly twenty years it has been a great pleasure to work closely with Jose Chardiet. As we bring to a close the celebration of the 50th Year of the Studio Glass Movement, I extend my appreciation to Jose Chardiet and all of the artists working in glass for their contributions to this vibrant movement.

Ken Saunders

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Blue Boy 2012 11 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

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Lavender and Apple Green 2012 12 x 7 x 7 inches

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Polka Dot Red 2012 13 x 8 x 8 inches

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Pinkie 2012 11 1/2 x 6 x 6 inches

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Princess 2012 12 x 7 1/2 x 7 1 /2 inches

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Gold Macaw 2012 10 x 9 1/2 x 4 inches

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Silver Tide Pool 2012 9 x 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches

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Night Horn 2012 17 1/2 x 4 x 5 1/2 inches

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Verde Dome Teapot 2011 8 1/ 4 x 9 x 3 1/2 inches

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Silver Rainbow Teapot 2011 10 x 9 x 3 3/4 inches

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Miramar 2012 25 1/2 x 12 x 8 inches

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Second Passage 2010 24 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 17 inches

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Ancestors 2012 26 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 17 inches

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Loon 2001 53 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches

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Royal Headdress 2007 31 1/2 x 13 x 8 inches

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Public Collections Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Munich, Germany Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. American Craft Museum, New York City, New York Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Glass Center, Corning, New York Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan MusĂŠe des Arts DĂŠcoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, North Carolina Birmingham Museum of Arts, Birmingham, Alabama University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, Project Art, Iowa City, Iowa Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village, Millville, New Jersey Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

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